"It's the job that's never started takes longest…" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."
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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
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Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight…
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He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a…
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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or…
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Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet…
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a…
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The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
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Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love…
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One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be…
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Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and…
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The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed…
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More Finish Quotes
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
— John James Audubon
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All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of…
— Christian Bale
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Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of…
— Russell Banks
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I start a picture and I finish it.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what…
— Thomas Beecham
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on…
— Ray Bradbury
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Often when I finish a film I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again.…
— Jeff Bridges
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When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.
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I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East…
— Jimmy Carter
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I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good.…
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